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Stephanos Ghobrial1, Dimitrios Nasiakos1, Nils Kinnman1

  • 1Cardiology, Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust, Truro, GBR.

Cureus
|August 18, 2025
PubMed
概括

胸痛的诊断因性别和年龄而异. 结合这些因素的基于风险的模型改善了冠状动脉疾病 (CAD) 的检测,而不是一刀切的方法.

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